• Jeff Davis, president of JDavis Architects, PLLC, a full-service architecture, landscape architecture and interior design firm, has announced Theodore B. Clippinger, Joleen Lockhart, Matthew Ansley and K. Daryl Carrington, LEED AP have been named associates at the firm.

Business

• Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Associates Inc., a Raleigh-based public relations firm, has announced that the firm received a Silver Communicator Award for the Web site content of Blue Ribbon Residential Construction. The 2008 Communicator Award was presented by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. The Communicator Awards is the leading international creative awards program honoring the creative excellence of professionals in the field of communication. It was founded more than a decade ago by communication professionals as an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communication, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio.

• Lloyd Jacobs, CEO of ClickCulture Inc., a Raleigh-based integrated marketing firm specializing in technology, has announced that the firm has won the Gold MarCom Award for Web site Overall for The Legacy at Jordan Lake Web site. The MarCom Awards, given by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals to give recognition to the creative talent, firms, departments and/or clients that collaborate on outstanding marketing and communication projects, are judged by senior-level, experienced professionals residing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.